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Meanings of seesaw in English
A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.
Catalan
balancejar Spanish
tambalear An apparatus composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, with seats at both end, used for a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
Usage of seesaw in English
1
We used to have a seesaw in the Original World, you know.
2
He felt the delicate change of balance as when a seesaw moves.
3
From start to finish it was a seesaw affair, and immensely complicated.
4
The tough metal was visibly undulating as the structure's seesaw fluctuations increased.
5
The kids on the seesaw watched us leave, shaking their middle fingers.
6
The S&P energy index .SPNY had a seesaw session as oil prices oscillated.
7
The trade seemed linked, like a seesaw; when oil surged, banking shares fell.
8
Political activists are at one end of the seesaw, Meisel at the other.
9
The seesaw continued, but at least the BaaBaas had a sense of humour.
10
He pressed him to end the seesaw policy of the last six months.
11
Then we had it back and forth, a regular seesaw game.
12
I caught it, and I'm on the lower end of the IQ seesaw.
13
One end of the seesaw had to be up and the other down.
14
There was a seesaw handle in the center of the square.
15
It balanced there like a seesaw, slowly rocking back and forth.
16
They're on a seesaw; Eccles goes up, he comes down.
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Translations for seesaw
Russian
Seesaw through the time
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United States of America
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